On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Charles O Nutter defenestrated me:

> Replies!
> 
> - I'll check out rubicon, but we're really starting to push the limits
> of Rubicon. I can change (i.e. break) some pretty core things without
> Rubicon failing. We may want to consider finding a way to include
> Ruby's own test cases into our regular run, for a little added juice.

  Yeah...rubicon is not enough test cases and coverage, but it is something
extra over our internal unit tests.  Adding Ruby test dir (well some subset 
of it) could be added now.  Perhaps even asking the metaruby guys to give 
us access to their fork of rubicon, since they that they have have lots of 
core library tests.

  We should also consider running clover with these tests to focus on
trouble areas (e.g. blocks/procs/lambdas).

> - As far as I've seen (though I haven't exercised it extensively) Ruby
> always normalizes to forward slashes. It's always been very jarring to
> me that JRuby mixed forward and backslashes, and there's many, many
> examples in Ruby's own .rb files where only forward slashes are
> handled. I can't say for certain but I think it's safe to assume that
> normalizing everything to forward slashes is probably far closer to
> reality than the mix we had before.

  Good.  I think we should match linux Ruby as much as possible since the
whole backslash thing breaks stuff semantically.

> - According to Eclipse, FIXME is high priority and TODO is medium
> priority. I can't comment on them showing up in task view, but at
> least the Eclipse guys agree that FIXMEs are more important than
> TODOs. I've generally only been changing TODO to FIXME in cases where
> I think it's a core fault or gap in the implementation...TODO is more
> of a "when you get a chance, have a look at this" to me. FIXME =
> broken; TODO = maybe not ideal. FYI, XXX is also given medium priority
> by default. I don't care what name we use, really. Perhaps "BROKEN"?

  Ok.  Well that is good to know.  I think they should add FIXME to their
list so it shows up under tasks.  It probably will for 3.2 (my eclipse
is keeping me on 3.1).  So it has downgraded from war of words to war
on classification :)

-Tom

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